As Anisimova took a breather, she was seen pulling out a Cincinnati Open-branded plastic cup from underneath her towel which contained a fizzy golden liquid.<\/p>\n
It led Tennis Channel commentator Brett Haber to ask three-time Grand Slam singles champion Lindsay Davenport: \u201cWhat is that, Lindsay?\u201d<\/p>\n
To which Davenport responded: \u201cIt could be apple cider, Brett?\u201d<\/p>\n
Haber replied: \u201cI mean, I would never suggest that a player was drinking a beer in the middle of a match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before Davenport added: \u201cI have never seen that.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Haber proceeded to claim the substance \u201clooked like\u201d beer, he posed other possible explanations, saying: \u201cIt could be non-alcoholic, it could be cider, it could be anything. We don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, the puzzling footage was later explained by Haber as he revealed the drink in question was in fact a Red Bull.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cWe can confirm via one of our courtside camera operators that Anisimova asked for and was delivered a Red Bull. That is the mystery bevvie.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it appeared to work for her as she comfortably claimed the deciding set to progress through in Cincinnati.<\/p>\n
World No. 10 Anisimova reached the Wimbledon and US Open finals in 2025.<\/p>\n
In a desperately disappointing performance, she was beaten 6-0 6-0 by Iga Swiatek in the Wimbledon final.<\/p>\n
But Anisimova put up much more of a fight against Aryna Sabalenka in New York, eventually succumbing to a 6-3 7-6 (3) defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennis star Amanda Anisimova bizarrely left commentators convinced she was drinking a beer during her match at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[245763,245770,245750,5356,245735,245747,245778,245777,245772,245779,245745,245730,245746,245741,245751,245775,245760,245765,245748,245756,245732,245769,7307,22241,245766,245762,245759,245736,241547,9390,32217,80472,245773,245725,245768,810,245753,245744,245734,245742,29677,1844,245727,18836,394,245757,245752,245737,64078,245767,101,118,245776,112463,245771,245764,245729,196126,245731,240711,245754,245740,245758,245726,245728,245739,245761,245781,245774,19585,245755,245733,245749,245743,245780,18879,56,54,55,245738],"class_list":["post-742964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-s-choice","tag-2025-in","tag-245750","tag-5356","tag-6-0-6-0","tag-a-4-6-6-4-6-2-victory","tag-a-6-3","tag-a-beer","tag-a-breather","tag-a-changeover","tag-a-cincinnati-open-branded-plastic-cup","tag-a-desperately-disappointing-performance","tag-a-fight","tag-a-fizzy-golden-liquid-it","tag-a-match","tag-a-moment","tag-a-player","tag-a-quarter-final-clash","tag-a-red-bull","tag-a-red-bull-he","tag-anisimova","tag-apple-cider","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-beer","tag-brett","tag-cincinnati-world-no-10-anisimova","tag-commentators","tag-czech-star-alex-eala","tag-davenport","tag-defeat","tag-drink","tag-fact","tag-haber","tag-her-match","tag-her-towel","tag-iga-swiatek","tag-just-1-as","tag-kayo","tag-kayo-sports-new","tag-linda-noskova-watch-amanda-anisimova","tag-lindsay","tag-match","tag-much-more","tag-mystery","tag-new-york","tag-other-possible-explanations","tag-our-courtside-camera-operators","tag-overseas-live","tag-question","tag-refreshment","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-channel-commentator-brett-haber","tag-tennis-star","tag-tennis-star-amanda-anisimova","tag-tennis-world","tag-the-american","tag-the-best","tag-the-biggest-aussie-sports","tag-the-changeover","tag-the-cincinnati-open","tag-the-commentators","tag-the-deciding","tag-the-drink","tag-the-middle","tag-the-mystery-bevvie","tag-the-post-match-headlines-watch","tag-the-puzzling-footage","tag-the-second-set-changeover","tag-the-substance","tag-the-video-player","tag-the-wimbledon-and-us-open-finals","tag-the-wimbledon-final-but","tag-the-world-no-10","tag-three-time-grand-slam-singles-champion-lindsay-davenport","tag-tuesday","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-your-first-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}